Improvement in hand-cars



UNITED STATES MARTIN E. HASTINGS, QF SALISBURY, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND-CARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,527, dated June 27,`1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN E. HASTINGS, of Salisbury, in the county ofWicomico and State v of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements inHand-(Jars for Railroads, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to a combination of devices by means of which ahand-car may be conveniently raised and 4turned across the track inorder to be removed therefrom, which devices will be hereinafter morefully explained.

Figure l represents a plan View of a hand-car with my devices embracedin it. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal vertical sectional view of thesame. Fig. 3 represents an end view of the leg, ioor of the car,cam-lever, and coacting devices for raising the car. A

A A A indicate the crossties; B, one of the rails. C 0 C C are thecarriage-wheels; E, the bottom of the hand-car; G, H, I, J, K, and N,thepropelling mechanism of the car; all of which are of any ordinaryconstruction. A frame, consisting of two upright pieces, fr, andcross-piece P, is secured to the bottom ofthe car. Through thecross-piece P, and down through a plate in the bottom of the car, passesthe prop or leg F, which is pivoted at b, at its lower end, and se curedby the nut a to the plate or disk D. When the legis pressed down, ashereinafter described, the disk is brought in contact with a tie or theroad-bed, and forms a bearing which supports the leg F and the car whichit carries, and allows them to be turned on the pivot b. To the upperend of the leg F is pivoted, at d, the frictionwheele. At the top of,and between the uprights o r 1^, is pivoted, at W, the cam-lever L. Whenthis lever is thrown over into the position shown in the drawing it actsupon the friction-wheel c,

presses down the leg F, and raises the car clear i of the track, asshown. The leg F is suspended to the. lever L by means of the links f f,secured y at their lower ends to the pivot d and at their upper ends tothe piu t'. This pin is,inserted in the lever L, eccentrically to itsfulcrum, in such a position that when the lever is thrown over into theposition indicated `in dotted lines the pin takes a position above saidfulcrum, carrying with it the links f f and the leg F, thus elevatingthe disk D clear of the ground and lowering the car so that it may restupon its wheels. When thecaris elevated as above described it may beturned round ou the pivot b, then lwered, as

described, and run oit the track. To replace it upon the track theoperation is reversed.

I have shown my invention applied to a handi car, but it is evident itcan be used on any car.

What I claim as my invention is i The cam-lever L, the leg F with itspulley e the hooks ff, and frame r r P, in combination, whenconstructed, arranged, and operated substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

' MARTIN E. HASTINGS.

Witnesses:

JAs. H. LowNDEs, ALEX. M. SToUT, Jr.

